Viruses

Viruses reveal shared way to kill bacteria by jamming small transporter MurJ

• Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria • The researchers have homed in on an underexplored small transporter called Mu

Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover

• In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. • The find